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Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Continuous Improvement -- The Next Manufacturing Craze -- IndustryWeek columnist David Drickhamer writes about his plans to come up with the "next big thing" in management. After discussing the need to practice being a guru, develop a cadre of proselytizers, and come up with a name for it, he asks...
"What about the meat of my program? That's the tricky part. Management ideas follow Darwin's theory of natural selection. There are challenges that aren't being met by the current approaches. New perspectives and solutions are bubbling to the surface that I'll have to ferret out and claim as my own. I'll also throw every operational improvement tool that's still working into my yet-to-be-named bag of tricks. It will be bigger and better than lean and Six Sigma because they'll both be in there. As will Total Quality Management, theory of constraints, management by objectives, employee empowerment, time-based competition, and anything else I can squeeze in."
As I often say, better together...the unified theory field.
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